Keynote Address: Moral Distress in Healthcare Work: What We Can do for Ourselves and our Colleagues
Sonya Norman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the director of the PTSD Consultation Program for the National Center for PTSD. She is a researcher in the treatment of PTSD and addictions, applications of Prolonged Exposure therapy, and novel treatments to address moral injury, trauma-related guilt and shame. She previously directed the PTSD treatment program for Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Norman has grants funded by VA, DoD, and NIH and has over 250 publications. She is an elected board member of the International Society of Traumatic Stress. Dr. Norman received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Presentation Title: Establishing and Maintaining a Community of Practice (CoP) for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (Panel Presentation)
Andrew Santanello, Psy.D., is a licensed, clinical psychologist in Maryland and Director of Learning and Professional Development at the ACT Academy. He is a Peer Reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Trainer, a National Cognitive Processing Therapy trainer, and has provided expert training and consultation to military and civilian providers for over 20 years. His professional interests include the dissemination and practice of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy with an increasing focus on mechanisms of change and process-based psychotherapy, psychological resilience, and the intersection of behavioral science and mindfulness-based approaches to alleviating human suffering.
Presentation Title: Establishing and Maintaining a Community of Practice (CoP) for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (Panel Presentation)
Jennifer Nevers, MSW, LCSW is the Subject Matter Expert Office Lead for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this capacity, she supports military behavioral health faculty on assignments and bandwidth across the center and provides professional development and performance management. She also assists in the implementation and expansion of the Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP) program where she trains civilian behavioral health providers to work with service members, veterans, and their families.
Presentation Title: Establishing and Maintaining a Community of Practice (CoP) for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (Panel Presentation)
Dr. Onna Brewer is a clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine and human services workforce development. She completed her doctoral training at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County conducting research on behavior change processes, brief interventions, and improving access to evidence-based care. Her postdoctoral and early career work focused on trauma recovery and outpatient care within the Veterans Health Administration where she also served as a Motivational Interviewing consultant and regional trainer for the VA’s National Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Initiative. Dr. Brewer is a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and currently provides training, consultation, and coaching for helping professionals across healthcare and community settings. She also collaborates on research with the Center for Translational Behavioral Science at Florida State University with a focus on Motivational Interviewing training, fidelity, and sustainable implementation.
Presentation Title: When Popularity Isn’t Proof: The Ethical Imperative of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Practice
Sarah Hope Lincoln, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University in the Department of Applied Psychology and a licensed clinical psychologist. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Harvard University and completed in internship at Bellevue Hospital/NYU Langone Medical Center. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at Boston Children’s Hospital and McLean Hospital. Prior to her doctoral degree she worked with the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy as well as the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Dr. Lincoln’s research examines the social factors that contribute to the development of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in children and adolescents.
Presentation Title: The Evolution of Evidence-Based Practice from the Core Manual through Enhancement, Expansion, and Personalization of Care
Tara Galovski, Ph.D., is the Director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Over the last decade, Dr. Galovski has been a national trainer of Cognitive Processing Therapy, has trained over 1000 clinicians in both the VA and community mental health clinics, and has treated or supervised the treatment of 100s of PTSD cases. She is interested in exploring the effects of exposure to traumatic events and continuing the development of psychological interventions designed to treat PTSD and comorbid psychiatric disorders. She has conducted federally funded clinical trials (NIH, VA, SAMHSA, DoD) within a variety of populations exposed to different types of trauma including combat, sexual trauma, domestic violence, community violence, and motor vehicle accidents. This work has been conducted with civilians, law enforcement, active duty service members, and Veterans and has been published in over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 20+ chapters and 3 books. Recently, Dr. Galovski has developed, and is the Director of, a national network of peer-led support groups for women Veterans (Women Veterans Network: WoVeN).
Presentation Title: Resilient Communities of Practice: How to Optimize Stress in Challenging Times
Dr. Gabriel Paoletti is the Director of Human Performance Optimization (HPO) Integration and HPRC in support of the Advanced Research for Military Optimization, Readiness, and Rehabilitation (ARMORR) – Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP), a center at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland. He oversees the strategic and operational components of delivering comprehensive health and performance education on Total Force Fitness and Human Performance Optimization to the DoD and national security community. Over the past 15+ years, Dr. Paoletti has applied the latest human performance research to create and lead over 400 distinct human performance optimization and leadership development programs for audiences throughout the world, ranging from leaders at the Pentagon, Army, Marine, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard service members to Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, CEO’s and government leaders. Under his leadership, his team has been officially selected to develop holistic human performance curricula for half of the U.S. Armed Forces. Dr. Gabriel Paoletti graduated from Saint Joseph’s University with a double major in economics and philosophy, graduating first in his class in both majors. He received his Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and his Doctor of Education in Leadership from Creighton University.
Presentation Title: Maintaining our Ethics in a Shifting Landscape
Dr. Lindsay Childress-Beatty, JD, Ph.D., CAE, is the American Psychological Association’s first Chief of Ethics and has been engaged in ethics work for more than two decades. She presents on ethics topics nationally and internationally, including numerous appearances focused on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence in psychology and society. A licensed attorney also trained as a clinical psychologist, she is guiding APA’s current revision of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, one of the most widely referenced professional ethics codes. She is also a founding member of the Ethics Professionals Network, uniting over 30 medical and mental health association ethics directors and a past chair of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Ethics Committee.
Presentation Title: Connecting California Military Members with Accessible, Affordable, and Skilled Behavioral Health Care
LTC Dustin Harris serves in the California Army National Guard as the Director of Psychological Health (Joint), where he leads the California Military Department’s statewide Behavioral Health program and oversees the full-time behavioral health force and more than twenty Behavioral Health Officers. He previously commanded the 297th Area Support Medical Company and served as the Medical Task Force Commander during the California National Guard’s COVID-19 response mission. LTC Harris has deployed to Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan and has also supported international training missions with Ukrainian and NATO forces in Ukraine and Poland. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Liberty University, a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work. With more than 15 years of professional experience in behavioral health across military, law enforcement, corrections, and state mental health systems, he continues to serve as an adjunct professor and practicing clinician.
Presentation Title: Connecting California Military Members with Accessible, Affordable, and Skilled Behavioral Health Care
Nick Boyd Ph.D., LPCC, NCC (check back later for Dr. Boyd’s Bio)